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To: Richard Habib who wrote (5873)	7/15/1999 7:17:00 PM
From: Chinacat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10309

Generally speaking, Copyrights are more important for Software than patents. Further, something like VxWorks would want to strive to embrace STANDARDS (for example RPCs, TCP/IP, Berkely Sockets, Java), so its value would be in its open-ness and compliance to standards, rather than its propietary-ness and diveregence from standards (which would be needed to get a patent). Hence, I see no problem with a lack of patents, since any Software IP would still be protected by copyrights. jmho